In advance of the meeting with the governors, the Minister of the Interior of the Nation,
Guillermo Francos
, stated this Thursday that the government of Javier Milei
could collect the Income Tax retroactively
and attributed it to a legal loophole left by the former minister Sergio Massa, in the midst of the "Platita plan" that he promoted during his campaign to become president.
"The decree was done so badly...There was a decree that the Massa government sanctioned by which the power of companies to make withholdings from workers in a dependency relationship was removed, who are the ones who paid this tax in the fourth category. And when the law is sanctioned, the law is sanctioned for the fiscal period of 2024, with which those months of the year 2023 in which the withholding was not made, the tax is not exempt," Francos explained.
In dialogue with radio Rivadavia, the national official described the situation: "All those people who were left in that situation, in reality, if the issue is not resolved with this law, they will be subject to paying for that quarter, those three months or four months of the year 2023, they will be subject to the payment of the Income tax because it is the fiscal period 2023 and the law raised it starting from the fiscal period 2024. It is an issue that must be solved."
In statements to Rivadavia radio, the national official detailed: "The establishment of the Income Tax, which is the most progressive tax that exists, is actually an income tax and exists throughout the world. Multilateral organizations raised the cry in the sky:
'How are they going to get the most progressive tax that exists?'
There was widespread questioning of that measure."
"In addition,
it is a tax that directly impacts the collection of the provinces
, so it is true that the provinces had a loss and the Government's intention is to restore it to them," he pointed out.
In September 2023, the then Minister of Economy and presidential candidate raised the Income Tax floor by decree to what is equivalent to 15 SMVM salaries (minimum vital and mobile).
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